argenteus

English

Borrowed from Latin argenteus (“of silver”).

argenteus (plural argentei)

A silver coin, minted in the Roman Empire between 294 and 310, weighing approximately 3 scruples.

Roman silver coin

From argentum +‎ -eus.

argenteus (feminine argentea, neuter argenteum); first/second-declension adjective

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	argenteus	argentea	argenteum	argenteī	argenteae	argentea
genitive	argenteī	argenteae	argenteī	argenteōrum	argenteārum	argenteōrum
dative	argenteō	argenteae	argenteō	argenteīs
accusative	argenteum	argenteam	argenteum	argenteōs	argenteās	argentea
ablative	argenteō	argenteā	argenteō	argenteīs
vocative	argentee	argentea	argenteum	argenteī	argenteae	argentea

Inherited:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: arenço
- Old Spanish: arienço
  - Spanish: arienzo
Borrowed:
- → English: argenteous, argenteus
- → Italian: argenteo
- → Portuguese: argênteo
- → Spanish: argénteo

“argenteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“argenteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"argenteus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
argenteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“argenteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“argenteus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly